MISSING AIRMEN SAFE.
FOUND IN ARCTIC CIRCLE. STRENUOUS SEARCH ENDED. WINNIPEG, Nov. 4. Since September 16 there have been thrilling tales of reckless flights by daring aviators who have ventured into the stark silence of the bleak and lonely North in a widespread search for Colonel C. D. McAlpine and a party of seven mining explorers. 1 They were lost w ? .:h two aeroplanes in the Arctic and no trace of them could be found.
To-day, however, the Department of Marine and Fisheries received a radio message from Fort Churchill stating that the missing men had been found alive and well at Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island, 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle. Eskimos are believed to have located them.
The two machines left Baker Lake on September 8 for Bathurst. The pilots lost their way in a snow-storm and landed at Cambridge Bay. They could not use their wireless until to-day. ■ At one time 19 aeroplanes were "employed in the search which covered 40,000 miles. i,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20405, 6 November 1929, Page 11
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